England vs Australia LIVE: T20 World Cup result and reaction as Aussies win by 36 runs
England take on Australia in the T20 World Cup
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Your support makes all the difference.England take on Australia in their second match of the T20 World Cup after their opener against Scotland was washed out in Barbados.
The old rivalry between the two nations, which came to a head during the Ashes last summer, will be reignited when they face each other at the Kensington Oval.
England went into the tournament as the defending champions, but their first match was not one they or the tournament would have wanted. Just 10 overs were possible and everyone was left frustrated, including those in red who had two of their four warm up games on home soil washed out without a ball being bowled.
Australia’s preparations have been a bit smoother, they arrived in the Caribbean when England were still facing rain delays at home, but had to use some of their coaching staff to make up numbers in warm-up matches.
Follow all the live action from the T20 World Cup match in the blog below
Australia 193-5 (19) Stoinis 25, Wade 15, Archer 1-28 (3)
Archer will bowl his last, and the last one from this end, it’s edged and goes away for another boundary. Wade motors on to 13 from 5.
Archer follows where Jordan left off, with cutters and hiding the ball outside the off stump. Brook dives down to go for the catch, couldn’t get there but stopped the boundary and that was a key piece of fielding.
Wade top-edges it high, but there’s no fielder underneath it and it drops safe with the batters able to run two.
Wade has been given out caught behind! He reviews straight away, and rightly so, it has hit the arm rather than the glove.
Australia 181-5 (18) Stoinis 20, Wade 9, Rashid 1-41 (4)
Adil Rashid will bowl his last over. Stoinis only gets a single for a ball just pushed into a gap.
Rashid tried to hide the ball outside off to the left-handed Wade, but it was too wide and the batter send the ball through extra cover to the boundary.
Rashid is not happy, the final ball of the over, with two men behind square, and it’s reversed between them and Bairstow can’t catch up to it.
Wicket! David out for 11! ct Livingstone b Jordan - Australia 173-5, Wade 4, Stoinis 17, Jordan 1-36 (3)
Jordan comes back on and he has just been whacked for six over extra cover by David! He tried to protect the shorter boundary, and he only hit it with one hand but it’s still gone for six.
Jordan has dropped one! David has whacked it straight back at the bowler and he has spilled it! That was hit so hard and he was in his follow through, but the England player does not drop many.
Liam Livingstone takes a catch on the boundary to bring an end to Tim David’s innings. That was just what England needed.
The last ball of the over was dispatched to the boundary along the ground however by Wade, and that again releases the pressure that had been built up.
Australia 160-4 (16) Stoinis 16, David 4, Livingstone 1-15 (2)
Stoinis only had one hand left on his bat when he hit that massive six! Livingstone will continue after getting the key breakthrough in the last over, he gets a foot on the ball to stop a boundary.
Just singles from the first four deliveries of the over, but a six off the final ball just relieves all the pressure again. That was a huge hit, 90 metres.
Australia 149-4 (15) Stoinis 8, David 1, Rashid 1-29 (3)
Tim David is the new batter, and Jofra Archer has gone in to leg slip. He taps his first delivery away for a single.
The next one was out the front of the hand and flew well wide. Stoinis goes for a big heave and misses, England needed to have two new batters to go at and that’s exactly what they’ve got.
All the pressure is released with a big six to the short boundary by the in-form Stoinis.
Wicket! Maxwell out for 28! ct Salt, b Rashid, Australia 141-4
Another leg spinner now, and Adil Rashid is back on to bowl. And he takes another! Maxwell has holed out to the fielder on the leg side boundary and that’s a massive wicket!
He sat back in his crease trying to create an opening and it just opened up another opportunity.
Wicket! Marsh out for 35! st Buttler b Livingstone - Australia 139-3
Maxwell attempted a reverse sweep the first ball of Livingstone’s first over. England are an over behind the run rate already, and Livingstone has just pulled out of a delivery.
If they don’t bowl their overs in time, they will have to bring an extra fielder into the ring.
And England have the breakthrough! Marsh has been stumped by Jos Buttler! The wicketkeeper missed the first chance but just about had enough chance on the second go, and that brings Stoinis to the crease.
Australia 136-2 (13) Marsh 34, Maxwell 26, Jordan 0-23 (2)
Jordan bowls a low full toss, and Marsh manages to get a quick single from the first delivery of the over. England are under pressure with how long they’re taking with Buttler being captain and behind the stumps.
Jordan went wide, Maxwell got something on it and top-edged the ball which went just wide of Bairstow who had just been brought into the ring at square leg.
Another one outside off stump and it has flown to the boundary for a six, and to bring up the half century partnership between the duo.
Maxwell plays another unorthodox four and Maxwell is starting to get going which could be worrying for England.
Two wides in the over have not helped.
Australia 118-2 (12) Marsh 29, Maxwell 15, Wood 0-32 (3)
It’s going to be a difficult challenge for England to balance this bowling attack and try and manage that shorter boundary, Archer did it well last over.
On Mark Wood’s Australia were allowed an extra run when a good throw from Livingstone deflected off the stumps and allowed the batters to run through for another run.
While Archer bowled cutters, Wood has kept the pace on at times, including deliveries over 90mph.
Maxwell powers the ball into the leg side and through midwicket for a good boundary.
Australia 111-2 (11) Marsh 26, Maxwell 16, Archer 1-21 (3)
Archer starts his third over with another cutter that Marsh heaves across the line for a single.
Marsh goes for a massive hit but it comes off right of the bottom of the bat and just trickles to Archer in his follow through. The England bowler, capable of hitting speeds well above 90mph, but he has kept the pace off.
However, one from Marsh just drops over the rope for his side’s ninth six of the innings.
Nine runs from the over.
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